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I BELIEVE IN THE SECRET WISDOM

Part 10, of a Series, ON THE MYSTERIES

OR ‘THE CONFESSION OF A HERETIC’

"Pathagoras composed his doctrine on the Harmony and
Music of the Spheres, calling ‘a tone’ the distance of the Moon from the
Earth; from the Moon to Mercury, half a tone, from thence to Venus the same;
from Venus to the Sun 1 1/2 tones; from the Sun to Mars a tone; from thence
to Jupiter 1/2 a tone; from Jupiter to Saturn 1/2 a tone; and thence to
the Zodiac a tone:
thus making seven tones - the diapason harmony."

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In
this Issue

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE STEP PYRAMID OF EDEN

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE CALENDAR

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE ZODIAC THE ZODIAC EXISTED BEFORE THERE WERE ANY WRITTEN SCRIPTURES
SECRET DOCTRINE FOUND IN THE ZODIAC AND RELATED CONSTELLATIONS
ANOTHER SYMBOL - THE GREAT SPHINX

In
the previous study, we looked somewhat at the Great Pyramid of Giza and
pointed out that originally, it had many hieroglyphic symbols on its faces,
which were meant to instruct mankind after the Flood.

Now,
I want to show the real significance of the many pyramids that are still
extant, around the world. These comments will also prepare my reader for
what we will be considering in future articles.

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE STEP PYRAMID OF EDEN

All
over Central America, Egypt and Babylon, step pyramids can still be seen,
to this day. The ones in Central America were erected in the last thousand
years or so but many of the ones in Egypt and North Africa are thousands
of years old.

Some years ago, Mr Faber wrote a book entitled, "Origin of Pagan
Idolatry", in which he speculated that these seven-tiered pyramids
reminded them of the Great Mountain of Atlantis. This is the same mountain
that had stood in the center of Eden.

Plato’s
account shows four separate rivers coming down the mountain on four sides,
making the sign of the cross.

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The
word ‘Eden’ is translated by Hebrew scholars as meaning ‘pleasure’ or ‘delight’,
a reference to the fact that God created the garden for the pleasure of
mankind. This is not, however, its true origin.

The
word ‘Eden’ is in fact Akkadian - the proto-Hebrew, or Semitic, language
introduced to Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) by the people of Agade, or Akkad,
a race that seized control of the ancient kingdom of Sumer during the second
half of the third millennium BC.

In their language the word ‘Eden’, or edin, meant a ‘steppe’ or ‘terrace’,
as in a raised agricultural terrace.

The
mythologies of both the Sumerians, who ruled the various Mesopotamian city-states
from around 3000 BC onwards, and their eventual conquerors, the Akkadians,
placed the homeland of the gods in this exact same region.

The
Akkadians originated as a Semitic, or proto-Hebrew, race of uncertain origin,
and in their religious literature this heavenly abode
is referred to as Kharsag Khurra, the heavenly mountain.

Here
the gods, also known as the Anunnaki, lived in a paradisiacal realm with
gardens, orchards, temples and irrigated fields that not only resemble the
Seven Heavens described in the ‘Book of Enoch’,
but is actually referred to on more than one occasion as edin, the
Akkadian for ‘steppe’ or ‘plateau’.

The
word Eden is derived from the Sumerian term E.DIN. Whilst the first syllable
‘E’ meant ‘Home’, the second syllable was an abbreviation of DIN.GIR, commonly
translated as ‘the gods’. Eden or E.DIN was therefore the ‘Abode of the
Gods’.

If
you will recall, in part 5 of this series, I quoted from Murray’s ‘Mythology’
as follows:

"On
the highest point of this mountain dwelt Zeus, "while
the mansions of the other deities were arranged upon plateaus, or
in ravines lower down the mountain.

Ezekiel wrote of the king of Tyre, saying, "You
have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your
covering, the sardius, topaz and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald and the carbuncle and gold:

the workmanship of your tabret and your pipes (?) were prepared in you in
day you were created. You are the anointed cherub
that covers; I set you so that you were upon
the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst
of the stones of fire.

You
were perfect in your ways until lawlessness was found in you." - (Ezek.
28:13- 15)

Does
this sound like any mortal that you know?

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The
Marduk ziggurat A tablet giving measurements and the eye-witness
account by the Greek historian Herodotus describe it as having had seven
stages of different colors with a temple at its top.

Of
course what Herodotus saw was not the original ziggurat, but a structure
greatly enlarged by Nebuchadnezzar, complete with a temple on top of it.
.The original, was probably built by Hammurabi.

Archaeologists
discovered a core consisting of the ruins of previous ziggurats which had
been leveled and enlarged several times, before Nebuchadnezzar added a casing
of burnt brick 15 m thick Each of the colors represented the visible planets,
with the sun and moon.

Gold
representing the sun and silver representing the moon.

Lethaby,
just a few pages later, says the Great Pyramid of Giza also had a smooth
facing utilizing seven different colors. "Maspero
and Perrot are disposed to accept the account of a Greek writer that the
Great Pyramid was decorated in zones of color, with the apex gilt . . ."

Imhotep
was the first architect ever to build a solid stone
pyramid. He built it at Saqqara during the Third Dynasty for his
king, the mighty Djoser.

Its stepped design is still very reminiscent of the seven-tiered ziggurat
structures of Mesopotamia, while the facades of the tremendous walls that
surround the pyramid complex are strikingly similar to the exterior walls
of cult buildings in ancient Iraq — the temple of Enki at Eridu being a
prime example.

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE CALENDAR

The
details of early calendars and their evolution are complex; suffice to say
that the problem was solved with reasonable accuracy (and, let us remember,
without the aid of mechanical clocks) by the Babylonians. Since then, there
have been additional complications and evolutions.

Julius Caesar had to summon an astronomer from Alexandria to sort out the
muddle into which the Roman calendar degenerated, and his Julian calendar
eventually fell out of phase by no less than eleven days, so that in 1752
Britain was forced to adopt the Gregorian calendar (established in the rest
of Europe by Pope Gregory in 1582), cutting eleven days from the year.

At
midnight on 2 September became 14 September, and people rioted in the streets
because they thought the civil servants were doing them out of eleven days
of life.

The
European calendar mandated by Pope Gregory in 1583 is the only world calendar
that did

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3.

not
intercalate at least two celestial cycles. The Hebraic
calendar acquired by Enoch after he was translated in a beam of light intercalated
solar and lunar cycles in a fashion similar to the Maya.

The
Dogon in Africa were given four calendars by visitors from Sirius B: Solar,
lunar, Venusian, and civil.

The Tibetan calendar is so similar to the Mayan that
traditional scholars now speculate that they share a common origin.

The
Vedic calendar is based on cosmic cycles, or Yugas. An ancient Hindu astrology
used 27 houses of 13 degrees 20 minutes, which are key numbers in the Mayan
calendar.

These
calendars provided a time management tool that synchronized planetary cycles
with visits from the stars. The Dogon calendar identified the 12 or 13th
Century as the date of last visit;

the Mayan calendar identified July 11, 1991, as an
upcoming date of visit. Both of these dates coincided with significant
planetary cycles.

As
we have displayed in our previous chapters, the Mexicans,
as all other Meso-Americans, believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation
of the world.

Some
paleontologists believe that human beings hastened a few of these extinctions
through overhunting. But one can see why it would be important to know when
the next catastrophe would strike.

The
"Calendar Stone" in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Museum
of Anthropology) in Mexico City depicts in its central panel the date 4
Ollin (movement), on which they anticipated that their current world would
be destroyed by earthquake, and within it the dates
of previous holocausts:

4 Tiger, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, and 4 Water. The Egyptians, as well, according
to Timeus of Plato, believed the earth is subject to recurring conflagrations
and floods.

The
peoples of Mesoamerica employed in addition to a practical calendar of 365
days, called the Haab, also a Sacred Calendar (called Tzolkin) of 260 days.

The
two cyclical calendars were conceived as two wheels with meshing teeth that
turned and returned to the same spot once in 52 years; and 52 was the Sacred
Number of the Winged Serpent god?

It
takes Venus 52 years to make an orbit around the Sun.

END
DATES

There
have been many projected dates for the ending of the Mayan calendar, ranging
from 1957 to 2050. The 2012 end-date was defined by the Thompson Projection.
Thompson's projection used a day-by-day count to cross -reference the Mayan
to the European calendar rather than a count of years.

This bypassed the problem of year names in the Gregorian system. Jose &
Lloydine agreed with Thompson's 2012 date. More importantly, the 2012 date
works with the hard facts evidenced by the accuracy of the July 26, 1992
Time Shift.

Terence
McKenna and Peter Meyer's Timewave Zero software that graphs time as a fractal
demonstrates by graph the accuracy of the winter solstice of 2012 as the
correct end-date of the Mayan calendar with graph anomalies appearing in
the months of July.

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4.

ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE ZODIAC

Once
a calendar had been devised, observation and the application of mathematics
meant that planetary movements could be predicted. The next step was the
invention of the zodiac.

In
the first place this was devised as a means of measuring
time. It is a circle around which twelve constellations are set,
each marking a segment of thirty degrees of the ecliptic, the imaginary
path the Sun seems to follow on its journey round the earth.

Because
that journey takes more or less 365 days, astronomers in Babylon, Egypt
and China independently arrived at the idea of dividing the ecliptic into
360 degrees, easily divisible into twelve sections.

The
circle, for practical purposes, had to start somewhere. In ancient times
it started variously from certain fixed stars — from Aldebaran or the Bull’s
Eye, for instance, or from Regulus, the brightest
star in Leo.

It is my belief that the Sphinx was build as a symbol to show the beginning
and end of the Zodiac. It’s face is that of a woman (Virgo), it’s body is
that of a lion (Leo). Modern astrology starts from the vernal equinox —
the point at which the Sun seems to cross the equator from south to north
at the spring equinox of the northern hemisphere on 20, 21 or 22 March each
year.

Is
there any wonder that the brightest stars in the belt of the Zodiac, just
happens to be in the four faces of the cherubim ?

Fomalhaut

Aquarius

Man

Regulus

Leo

Lion

Antares

Ophiuchus

Eagle
- Serpent Holder

Aldebaran

Taurus

Bull

These
stars are three Signs apart from each other. !!!

THE
ZODIAC EXISTED BEFORE THERE WERE ANY WRITTEN SCRIPTURES

In fact, it was Enoch who learned the signs of the Zodiac from God and passed
it, and the names of the stars, on to mankind.

According
to the Book of Jubilees, supposedly written by Moses, Enoch "was
the first among men that are born on earth who learned writing and knowledge
and wisdom and who wrote down the Signs of Heaven, according to the order
of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the year according
to separate months."

David,
the sweet psalmist of Israel, wrote: "The heavens declare the glory
of God and the firmament shows his handiwork.

Day
unto day utters speech and night unto night shows Knowledge. There is no
speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone throughout
the earth and their words to the end of the world. . ."
- Psl. 19:1-4

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There
is a proper use of the Zodiac and an evil use of the Zodiac, even a false
religion such as the Israelites had, when they burned incense to the twelve
signs of the Zodiac.
- II Kings 23:5

"According
to Seneca, Berous taught prophecy of every future event and cataclysm by
the Zodiac; and the time fixed by him for the conflagration of the world
and another for a deluge, is found to answer to the time given in ancient
Egyptian papyrus.

It comes at every renewal of the cycle of the sidereal year of 25,868 years.
The names of the Akkadian months were called by and derived from the names
of the signs of the Zodiac, and the Akkadians themselves are far earlier
than the Chaldeans." - P. 649, Vol. I, The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky

SECRET
DOCTRINE FOUND IN THE ZODIAC AND

RELATED
CONSTELLATIONS

The
pictures found today in the zodiac were not developed by the Greeks, but
were in place perhaps as early as 4000 B.C. predating even the civilizations
of Sumeria .

These
pictures were not merely arranged in haphazard order to aid in the tracking
of the star movements, but with the purpose of depicting an epic
narrative.

Authors
like Bullinger and Seiss have suggested that there is a deeper meaning,
one that goes beyond even the most illuminated of occult interpretations.
The zodiac is a pictorial story of God's plan of salvation on earth. The
key to understanding the celestial zodiac is found in ancient depictions
of a mythical creature called the sphinx.

For those who have never been exposed to the writings of Bullinger and Seiss,
I will now lay out the exoteric meaning of the Twelve Signs and the three
associate constellations belonging to each Sign, beginning with Virgo:

VIRGO
is
a prophecy of the Coming Seed. In Hebrew ‘bethulah’ is the Virgin found
in Isaiah 9:6,7; 7:14. She holds a sheaf of wheat in her hand (or a branch)
Jer. 23:5,6; Isa. 11:1

1.
COMA - means ‘desired’. She is the woman holding a child. The Arabian
Astronomer, Albumazar described this constellation as an Egyptian Queen
seated, holding a small boy, whose name is IHESU or IEZA, which in Greek
is Christos. Hagg. 2:7

2.
CENTAURUS - Speaks of two natures and the despised sin offering. In
Hebrew it is ‘Bezeh’ See Isa. 53:3 Also called Asmeath (sin offering-
Isa. 53:10).

CAPRICORNUS
-
Results of the Redeemer’s suffering. He is part fish (bottom half) and part
goat (top half). He has been to the depths of the Ocean and the peaks of
Mountains. Hebrew ‘gedi’ means ‘the kid’ or ‘cut off’.

1.
SAGITTA - Arrow of God sent forth. See Psl. 38:2; Job 6:4

2.
AQUILA - Smitten one falling. Constellation of wounded Eagle.

3.
DELPHINUS - Dead one rising again. Is the constellation of the Dolphin.
The Egyptian Zodiac shows a vessel pouring out water. Hebrew ‘dalaph’
means ‘pouring out of water’. The Persian Zodiac shows a fish and a
stream of water.

AQUARIUS
-
The Blessing Assured. In the Egyptian Zodiac of Denderah, his name is Hupei
(meaning ‘place of his coming down’ or ‘poured forth’) and he is shown as
a man holding two urns, from which streams of water pour forth. The great
fish at his feet, ‘Piscis australis’ comes from one of them.

TAURUS
-
Christ comes to rule. Hebrew ‘shur’ - ‘coming to rule’. Josephus
mentioned that the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac were laid out in the floor
of Solomon’s temple.

(Wars V, 5:4,5, 214, 217) Today, the Sign of Taurus shows only the head,
neck and two horns of a bull. Since each of the twelve tribes of Israel
were associated with the twelve signs of the Zodiac, it is written of Joseph’s
two children,

"His
glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns
of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the end of the
earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands
of Manasseh." - Deuteronomy 33:17

In
the neck of Taurus are the beautiful Pleiades (which means Congregation
of the Ruler). The Hebrew equivalent is used in Job 9:9; 38:31, 32. The
Syriac name for Pleiades is ‘succoth’ meaning ‘booths’. Another group of
stars found in his nose is Hyades, meaning the ‘congregated’. See Jude 14,
15; Psl. 44:5; Isa. 34:3-8

In
an important work on ancient Euphratean star-lore written by Aratus, a noted
Greek astronomer and poet who lived around 270 BC,
the sea-monster Cetus is referred to as "the dusky Monster" — a name
that was said to express "the blue-black of the nocturnal sky".

The
primary chaos out of which the Near Eastern cultures of the foothills and
plains first emerged was viewed mythologically as a huge sea-monster or
primeval dragon called Tiamat or Kumarbi.

Legend
spoke of the physical world being fashioned from the body of this mythical
creature, while the tears that flowed from its eyes went to form the water-courses
of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.

Both
Tiamat and Kumarbi bore a celestial counterpart seen as forming the stars
of the constellation known as Cetus — the great whale
or sea-monster — which swam in the celestial form of the Euphrates
river.

In
astronomical terms, this string of 34 stars, stretching between the front
paws of Cetus and the left-foot of the giant Orion, is known as the
starry stream of Eridanus and the River of the Night.

The
whole area of south-western sky in which these constellations are placed
was known in Babylonian times as the Gate of the Deep, beyond which lurked
the dark primeval waters of chaos with which Tiamat
had threatened to drown the world before the current world age.

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ANOTHER
SYMBOL - THE GREAT SPHINX

Assuming
that Sekhmet’s fierce fire was in some way representative of an all encompassing
conflagration that devastated Egypt, then might the intoxicating brew that
covered the earth be a memory of a subsequent flood that also overwhelmed
the land?

If
so, then was Sekhmet herself simply an allegorical allusion to the Age of
Leo? (From around 10,970 BC to 8,810 BC.) The indications are that the lion
of Leo came to symbolize the age of chaos and destruction that surrounded
the end of the Ice Age, perhaps the reason why the Arabs referred to the
Great Sphinx as the "Father of Terrors".

It
seems likely that these troubled times forced Egypt’s high culture to fragment
and disperse, hence the sudden cessation of proto-agriculture among the
various Nile communities. This supposition is supported by vivid accounts
of fire and flood from Egypt itself.

For example, surviving Coptic-Arab texts speak of
the land being devastated both by floods and a great fire that came from
"the constellation of Leo"

-
a reference not necessarily to some astronomical boloid coming from this
part of the heavens, but to the time-frame in which these events occurred,
in other words during the Age of Leo.

Recent
geological surveys of the Great Sphinx have revealed that the weathering
effects visible on its body, and on the nearby enclosure wall, were caused
not by wind, as the Egyptologists believe, but by water precipitation -
in other words, rain.

Lots
of it, over a very, very long period of time.

Such
a supposition creates insurmountable problems for the academics as it is
known that the last time Egypt produced enough rain to have created such
raging torrents of water was during the 3000-year stretch between 8000 and
5000 BC.

Great
discoveries are being made on the Giza plateau.

None can be more extraordinary than the detection
beneath the Sphinx's wedge-shaped enclosure of a series of nine concealed
chambers of unnatural origin.

These
were first noticed during seismic soundings of the hard bedrock by two research
programmes, one led by seismologist Thomas Dobecki in 1991 and the other
co-ordinated in 1996 by the University of Florida in association with millionaire
Joseph Schor, a life-long member of the Edgar Cayce Foundation (see below).

Egyptologists
assert that the Valley Temple, which sits on the edge of the plateau, was
built at the time of the Pharaoh Khafre, around 2550 BC. Certainly, it is
linked via a stone causeway to another ancient temple on the eastern side
of the Second Pyramid which is also accredited to Khafre.

Further evidence of this conclusion, they say, is the Valley Temple's similarity
in design to other temples on the Giza plateau, as well as its proximity
to the Great Sphinx and the fact that statues of Khafre were found abandoned
in a well located beneath its floor.

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That’s
all for this issue folks. Until next time, your
editor,

Jeffrey Brackeen

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